đź“– Chapter 1093 - I Didn't See It Clearly!
The sky was a bright blue, and sunlight shone down on the earth, illuminating mountain peaks, valleys, rivers, and seas. The edge of the world couldn’t be seen no matter how high you stood.
It was as if the concept of size didn’t apply to this world. If you said it was small, then maybe it really was small, but if you considered it big, then it was limitlessly big.
“This place… is strange!” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. This wasn’t the Planet Heaven’s Mandate he was familiar with, and the Book of Heaven’s Mandate was nowhere to be found. He was standing atop a tall mountain peak that seemed to tower into the heavens.
The mountain peak was so high that it pierced into the sea of clouds. Violent winds whistled around him, and the ground under his feet was covered in snow.
However, this snow wasn’t white, but blue.
Blue snow, whipping winds, a boundless sea of clouds, and a land without end down below… this was the scene reflected in Wang Baole’s eyes at the moment.
If not for his clear mind, Wang Baole would have assumed that he was in another past life. However, it was due to his clear mind that he found this scene of the future even more interesting. No matter where he looked or what he felt, everything around him was sending him a certain message.
All of this… was real.
The wind was real, the snow was real, the sea of clouds and land below were real… In Wang Baole’s perception, the entire world was completely devoid of vitality, like a planet without life.
And this, too, was real.
Wang Baole’s brows rose slightly. He continued scanning the sea of clouds around him for a few breaths of time, but then his expression abruptly changed and his head whipped to the right.
The moment he turned his head, he saw two figures appear in the boundless sea of clouds. One was Reverend Heaven-Learned, and the other… was Wang Baole himself!
“Sixty-eight years…” Reverend Heaven-Learned murmured.
Wang Baole heard the words, and… the other Wang Baole also heard them.
“Is it already the end?” After a moment of silence, the other Wang Baole spoke up in a hoarse voice. If another person was there, they might not be able to understand the meaning behind those words, but the person who understood Wang Baole best… was Wang Baole himself, after all.
Thus, he could sense some hidden meanings as well as complex emotions from the words of his other self. He could hear regret, as well as… confusion.
But before Wang Baole could hear anything more, a ray of light appeared in the sky… or to be more exact, it appeared beyond the sky. It was a colorful light that seemed capable of melting and annihilating all things, and it covered the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain, including Planet Heaven’s Mandate…
Wang Baole didn’t know what happened next, because the moment he saw that light, everything in front of his eyes disappeared. Suddenly, he heard the sound of breathing all around him, and felt the gazes of countless eyes. In front of him was the Book of Heaven’s Mandate, giving off waves of repulsive force. After glancing at the book, he turned to look at Reverend Heaven-Learned.
“How long has it been?” Wang Baole asked with a frown.
"Nine breaths." Reverend Heaven-Learned replied calmly.
Wang Baole’s frown deepened. Raising his head, he noticed that all the cultivators on the giant beasts were looking at him with strong curiosity. He also saw Xie Haiyang nearby staring at him intently, as if wondering what he had seen.
But Wang Baole couldn’t describe the scene of the future that had appeared in his eyes. Although that scene seemed simple, it was also not simple at all. After thinking about it, he concluded that the problem was that he hadn’t seen enough.
Thus, he lowered his head and looked at the Book of Heaven’s Mandate again. He felt the book emitting a powerful repulsion, as if trying to send Wang Baole flying away.
As the book vibrated, the repulsive force became stronger and stronger, and Wang Baole’s hand was forced back, hovering a few inches above the page.
When he saw this scene, Reverend Heaven-Learned’s old servant opened his mouth to conclude the future-viewing session. But at that moment, Wang Baole suddenly spoke up.
“I didn’t see it clearly just now. It doesn’t count, let me try again.”
As he spoke, his right hand instantly pressed back down. The Book of Heaven’s Mandate trembled violently, apparently unwilling to allow Wang Baole to touch it again. The old servant wanted to stop him, but when he saw that Reverend Heaven-Learned’s expression didn’t change, he remained silent and pretended not to see anything.
But among the people in the surroundings, there were obviously people with functioning eyes. They clearly saw the Book of Heaven’s Mandate struggle and try to repel Wang Baole, and their expressions filled with surprise. But a moment later, that surprise turned to shock.
That was because… when Wang Baole noticed the Book of Heaven’s Mandate’s resistance, an illusory black wooden board appeared in his hand again. It seemed to carry an irresistible force, directly penetrating all of the book’s defenses and smashing straight down!
Bam!
Wang Baole’s hand once again made contact with the Book of Heaven’s Mandate.
The book shook a few times with extreme reluctance, but it had no choice. Waves of ripples spread out again, enveloping all of Planet Heaven’s Mandate…
And so, the world in front of Wang Baole’s eyes changed again… This time, what he saw wasn’t a single scene like before, but a series of many scenes one after another, like a film reel.
It seemed that the Book of Heaven’s Mandate had decided to show everything at once. If it could talk, it would probably be complaining to Wang Baole – you can look at whatever you want, so please just leave once you’re done…
Thus, Wang Baole looked at the first scene on the reel.
There, he saw himself choosing not to leave after Reverend Heaven-Learned’s birthday celebration. He remained on Planet Heaven’s Mandate, indifferently watching the alternation of the sun and moon, the changing of the stars, and the transformations of the world.
He saw the death of the Flame Patriarch, the destruction of the Federation, the revival of the Underworld Sect, and the battle between his senior brother Chen Qingzi and the Never-Ending Clan’s Divine Emperors.
He saw countless lives dying one after another for the next sixty-eight years, as well as countless lives being born. He saw this happen on every planet and in every civilization.
Over the years, many people came to Planet Heaven’s Mandate to greet Reverend Heaven-Learned, as well as to meet Wang Baole himself. For example, there was the Flame Patriarch arriving just before death, and Li Wan’er kneeling down and begging him for help. Zhao Yameng, Xie Haiyang, and many other familiar faces came to see him as well. But immersed in a transcendental state, the Wang Baole in the scene remained completely indifferent to them.
Sixty-eight years later, a colorful light appeared in the starry sky and began destroying everything. Wang Baole saw himself and Reverend Heaven-Learned standing in the sea of clouds and looking out at the distant starry sky.
“Sixty-eight years…”
“Is it already the end?”
“It’s both the end and the beginning.”
“Then… see you in the next life.”
“See you.”
In the sea of clouds, Reverend Heaven-Learned and Wang Baole’s other self cupped fists and bowed to each other. Their bodies gradually faded, and when the colorful light arrived, they disappeared completely, merging into the void.
Wang Baole’s body trembled, and his eyes slowly opened.
At the same time as he opened his eyes on Planet Heaven’s Mandate…
The headquarters of the Nine Provinces Dao, the Left Dao Holy Region’s number one sect, spanned across more than a hundred thousand galaxies. Among them, in a galaxy belonging to the Heavenly Water Civilization, there was a giant figure sitting cross-legged.
This figure was as large as an Eternal Star!
And looking closely, it could be seen that… they really seemed to be the Eternal Star of the Heavenly Water Galaxy.
Infinite light and heat radiated from their whole body. In terms of strength, they far surpassed any of the Dao Protectors around Wang Baole. Even if both sides were Eternal Star Realm Almighties, one was like a torch while the other was a true blazing sun.
This person was none other than the second-ranked Dao Child of the Nine Provinces Dao. Using a forbidden technique, he had fused a large number of Eternal Stars into his body, increasing his battle prowess to an astonishing degree. As for his cultivation base, it had reached the late stage of the Eternal Star Realm.
At the moment, he was meditating among the stars with closed eyes. But suddenly, the illusory figure of a purple crescent moon appeared soundlessly from the void. The moon blurred and transformed into the vague silhouette of a beautiful woman.
“Chong Yizi, when I gave you that secret art back then, you told me that you would do one thing for me. Now, I need you to help me kill someone!”